From comparing Twitter mentions of gadgets, toys, gaming consoles and retailers to tracking how many people are talking about airlines on Facebook, HootSuite’s holiday-themed social media command center has you covered, and its all happening live right now.

Turn on your Rudolph mp3, pour yourself a low-fat cocoa and curl up beside the faux fireplace with your cellphone: the winter holidays have entered the 21st century and are playing out before our eyes on social media.

HootSuite, makers of the market-leading social media management system, has gotten into the holiday spirit with a dedicated Holiday social media command center, gathering together all the treats Twitter and Facebook have to offer this December.

Anyone in the retail industry knows what a valuable time of year this is, but also how hectic and even frustrating it can be for customers. Understanding the real-time sentiment of seasonal shoppers will give businesses insight on how their clients are feeling about stores, products and the shopping experience in general.

The HootSuite Holiday command center compares:

Twitter mentions of the most popular devices, toys and gaming consoles

Twitter mentions of major retailers

Amount of people talking about major airlines on Facebook

More broadly, the command center will offer insight into how many people are tweeting about the holidays, and their sentiment about both the holidays and their shopping experiences.

“The retail information included in this command center is a perfect illustrations of how companies can capitalize the endless stream of data being posted on social networks,” says RyanHolmes, CEO of HootSuite. “All the the tools we feature in the HootSuite dashboard are invaluable sources of information and are ideal for customer interaction. The command center is the hub where these social assets can be best be analyzed and utilized by businesses.”

HootSuite, whose patented social media dashboard is now utilized by over five million global users, announced the creation of HootSuitecommandcenters in October 2012 to help organizations get the most value from their social media management. The offering, soon available to HootsuiteEnterprise clients, will let companies, especially large enterprises, command and control all of their social activity by giving social media teams the ability to monitor, measure and react to all online activity in real-time.

A history of HootSuite Enterprise command centers

The command center was put on display during the American presidential election this fall. Journalists and members of the public watched the social media election story unfold on a command center that compared the mentions and likes of both candidates. The command center made it clear that Barack Obama’s victory in the polls was accompanied by a victory in social media influence.

That same technology has now been put to use in a retail context. Which retailers and products are leading in the holiday polls? Get into the spirit by visiting our HolidayTrackercommandcenter.

HootSuite is a social media management system for businesses and organizations to collaboratively execute campaigns across multiple social networks from one secure, web-based dashboard. Launch marketing campaigns, identify and grow audience, and distribute targeted messages using HootSuite’s unique social media dashboard. Streamline team workflow with scheduling and assignment tools and reach audiences with geo-targeting functionality. Invite multiple collaborators to manage social profiles securely, plus provide custom reports using the comprehensive social media analytics tools for measurement. Key social network integrations include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ Pages, plus a suite of social content apps for YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr and more. To learn more, visit: www.hootsuite.com.

Today, Content Writing King has resumed using their blog post writing service to write a blog post about Kompass. This signals an end to the short hiatus they had undergone in terms of blog post writing. They also stated that the will regularly post blog posts. The said the goal is to post daily, including video, but that they can’t promise blog post writing more than 3 times a week.

According to Content Writing King, the main purpose of their blog post writing is to practice their SEO content creation advice with their website. They have stated before that SEO through content creation is essentially the only 100% white hat SEO practice, therefore needs the most attention. This is because creating high quality websites for the benefit of visitors is what it’s all about, stated the SEO content creation company.

Another reason for their continuation of their SEO content creation through blogging is to reach their audience in the far corners of the Internet by syndicating their content to their social media accounts.

Content Writing King has also recently blogged about starting an SEO video content creation case study. They said that they would update readers through their blog about progress. As a way to jumpstart the case study, Content Writing King has started a promotional offer for their SEO video service. They stated that new customers will get a 10% discount if they sign up for at least 50 videos from their SEO video service if they agree to be a part of the case study. The case study includes visual and audio experimentation.

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iCastleville.com, the leading independent news and updates website for the popular Castleville social media game, is delighted to announce the publication of a new quest guide on its website.

The new guide, for the Baz Occupational Hazard Quest, is only available for those players who have already reached level XXVI and above. In addition, gamers must have completed the Castleville Game ‘Duke The Lamont Swamp Quest ‘before they can attempt the Baz Occupational Hazard Quest.

iCastleville.com, said that they had published a guide in response to growing frustration from a number of game, who complained that the new quest was far too difficult and time-consuming to compete.

The Baz Occupational Hazard Quest involves searching for a monster (a dragon), and is known to be one of the toughest quests in the game to date. Even so, players who can complete the quest will be well rewarded for their efforts with a dragon skull, dragon horn and topiary dragon.

The new Baz Occupational Hazard Quest guide, which is available for free on iCastleville.com’s official website, details step-by-step the process that gamers need to follow in order to successfully complete the quest.

In addition, it lists all of the items, powers, and special abilities players need in order to complete the quest, and explains where they can get these from before setting off to complete their task.

Dan Lim, editor of iCastleville.com, said that it was important that players had the help available when they needed it, so that they do not get frustrated give up on playing the game:

“The problem is, this latest quest was just too difficult for so many players. When something like this happens, the natural reaction of many gamers is to just drop out. Obviously, that’s something we don’t want to happen, we have a vested interest in making sure it doesn’t happen, which is why we have produced this guide. Using an guide, players should be able to complete the Baz Occupational Hazard Quest in just a few hours.”

Dan added that the guide is now available for free to all iCastleville.com readers on its official website. Those who want to use the guide should visit their website and check the featured posts section for more details.

About iCastleville.com

iCastleville.com is the leading independent news, updates and links website for the popular social networking game Castleville. Packed with dozens of informative articles, and regularly updated with all the latest hints, tips and cheats for the Castleville game, the website has quickly become the number one resource for hundreds of players around the world. For more information, check out their website athttp://www.iCastleville.com.

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